Michael Bloomberg
The Operator
Execution, delivery and performance, gets the hard thing done.
Michael Bloomberg is The Operator down to the dashboard. Across twelve years as Mayor of New York City he governed through a managerial, metrics-driven philosophy, deploying tools like CompStat and 311 to treat city administration as an optimisation problem. Bloomberg LP was founded on the same instinct, building precise, reliable systems that deliver information at maximum efficiency.
“So just a few lines for you here. This reminds me of Teddy Roosevelt. He is fantastic. I like the idea of a life motto, a family motto. This has come over a couple times with Stan Lee, the guy that created Marvel Comics.”
“The fact that you can put that these books are widely available, you can pick up for $15 or $20, that's insane. There is not a better investment on the planet. So it says it is said that 80% of life is just showing up. I believe that you can never have complete mastery over your existence.”
“Each new story is a product demo. This is wild with our terminal functions included, each of our new stories would be more informative than the competitions, and more people would want access to them, which meant more revenue, which in turn meant we could afford more reporters and have more news, and so on and so on.”
“So I'm going to skip over his college, his time at college. I want to get right to when he goes to business school. He goes to Harvard. And he starts to learn about, okay, what actually affects achievement in the future. And so he says, my two years at Harvard were well spent.”
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